Digori as a Baby Name. Meaning and Origin of Digori

What is the meaning of the name Digori ?

The baby name Digori is a Male name , 3 syllables long and is pronounced DIH-gor-ee (IPA: /ˈdɪgəri/).

Digori is English in Origin.

Digori draws on Cornish and Breton tradition, ultimately linked to the Old/Middle French word égaré “lost, astray.” The name appears in the Middle English romance Sir Degaré (also Degore), where the abandoned hero’s epithet becomes a given name; it was then adopted in the southwestern counties of England. In Cornish usage the forms Digory/Diggory predominated, with Digori surviving as a rarer spelling. The usual sense is “wanderer,” “lost one,” or, more warmly, “the one found again.”

Records show steady baptismal use in Cornwall and Devon from the 1500s into the 18th century, and the scholar Degory Wheare (1573–1647) bears an early attested variant. Later literature kept the name visible through Thomas Hardy’s Diggory Venn and C. S. Lewis’s Digory Kirke. Today it remains uncommon but distinctive. Variant forms include Digori, Digory, Diggory, Degory, Degore, and Degaré; short forms like Digo or Rory are sometimes used.

⚙ Digori is exceptionally rare. Across 2 countries, we found just 3 recorded uses of it.